The fireman is enjoying the stack talk as Thomas pounds past the pumpkin patch, hauling 7 cars and a caboose back to Strasburg.

The "Real" Thomas. At the Strasburg Rail Road on Sunday, September 15, 2019, extra “A Day Out With Thomas” trains made short turns to Ebenshade Road in between the hourly runs to Leaman... (more)

Burlington Northern SD40-2 No. 7157 and Norfolk Southern SD40 No. 1595 lead a westbound grain train up Mullan Pass over Greenhorn Trestle between Weed and Skyline, Montana on October 3, 1997.

For many years, this Climax sat in Cass, WV holding out hope to ride the rails again. Today this 99 year old locomotive got the chance to run after a lot of hard work by the Durbin and Greenbrie... (more)

Whisking passengers between Toronto and Ottawa is VIA Rail Canada Corridor train 40. VIA P42DC 902 (class EPA-42a) is pulling an LRC Business Class Car and three stainless steel coaches. ... (more)

Still in its Erie-Lackawanna heritage colors but having received Conrail stenciling, CR 6688 was erroneously listed in Conrail's initial locomotive roster as an SDP45.

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

Normally ever spring a weed spray train runs across the Iowa Zone on the CN. Each year you never know what type unit CN will put on it for power. This year a nice treat was this GE cowl unit. Here... (more)

Reading T1 #2124, recently cosmetically restored, basks in the late afternoon light before a night photo session planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous Reading Rambles. Alongside ... (more)

RI 4334, now a MP unit (note blue out name on unit side) but otherwise unchanged and not renumbered, sits at Emma, MO, Sept 15, 1980.

It's a busy morning (for Union Pacific's Ayer Subdivision that is) in the remote Palouse River Canyon of southeast Washington. While we wait at our clifftop vantage point, we can hear the sound of... (more)

As part of the Conway Scenic Railfan's Weekend, a special steam freight was operated originally south from North Conway to Conway, then switched at Conway, before making a trip back to North Conwa... (more)

Conway Scenic Railroad's Railfan Weekend included an end-to-end trip on the company-operated former Maine Central Mountain Division trackage. After departing North Conway Depot, the train headed ... (more)

4 GP38-2's in 1 shot. Left to right are 1805, 1808 (teamed up with 1806), and 1800 captured at Cochrane Shops August 24, 2019.

A Virgin Trains USA service operated by Brightline departs Fort Lauderdale. VTUS is currently expanding to Orlando with construction underway north of West Palm.